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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Prussia, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. Kolker came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career behind him before entering silent films. On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face (1933) as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Another well remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by...
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A Woman's FaceMovie • 1941
Union PacificMovie • 1939
The Real GloryMovie • 1939
HolidayMovie • 1938
Romeo and JulietMovie • 1936
Marie AntoinetteMovie • 1938
The Adventures of Marco PoloMovie • 1938
Reunion in FranceMovie • 1942
Wonder BarMovie • 1934
Baby FaceMovie • 1933
Mad LoveMovie • 1935
BluebeardMovie • 1944
The Cowboy and the LadyMovie • 1938
Bullets or BallotsMovie • 1936
The Black RoomMovie • 1935
Charlie Chan in ParisMovie • 1935
Too Hot to HandleMovie • 1938
Imitation of LifeMovie • 1934
The Case of the Curious BrideMovie • 1935
The Last Days of PompeiiMovie • 1935
Black MoonMovie • 1934
Jewel RobberyMovie • 1932
Abraham LincolnMovie • 1930
CoquetteMovie • 1929